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New Jersey Online:
Bridgegate verdict: Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly guilty on all counts — NEWARK — Two former Christie administration insiders charged in a bizarre scheme of political retaliation against a mayor who refused to endorse the governor for re-election were found guilty Friday on all counts in the long-running Bridgegate saga.
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Washington Post, NorthJersey.com, Politico, Mother Jones, Hit & Run, The Week, Daily Kos and Law News
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The Daily Beast:
Christie Allies Convicted on All Bridgegate Charges — Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, Jr. were found guilty on Friday of all charges related to the 2013 orchestrated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. Kelly and Baroni were indicted in 2015 on nine counts of conspiracy, fraud, and other charges.
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Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement and New York Magazine
New Jersey Online:
Bridgegate verdicts are in, follow live updates
Bridgegate verdicts are in, follow live updates
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Above the Law and Mediaite
CNN:
Bridgegate case verdict: Former officials guilty on all counts
Bridgegate case verdict: Former officials guilty on all counts
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Hot Air and twitchy.com
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
2 ex-Christie aides were just convicted in Bridgegate. Christie is still running Trump's transition.
2 ex-Christie aides were just convicted in Bridgegate. Christie is still running Trump's transition.
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Politico
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Ex-Christie Aides Convicted in George Washington Bridge Case
Ex-Christie Aides Convicted in George Washington Bridge Case
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ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Common Dreams, Gothamist and Business Insider
CBS News:
Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday — NEW YORK — CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. — Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces …
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Hot Air, The Mahablog, CBS New York, The Jawa Report, WTVR-TV, Infowars, Jihad Watch, AOL, VICE, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Fox 59, The Week, CBS Dallas, Washington Free Beacon, TheBlaze, KTLA and CBS Philly
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David Ingram / Reuters:
U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Giuliani says he was leaked information about emails days in advance of Comey letter — “You're darn right I heard about it.” — During an Friday morning appearance on Fox & Friends, Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani admitted “former FBI agents” leaked information to him about the Bureau's renewed interest …
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alan.com, Washington Post, New York Times, Media Matters for America, Techdirt, Towleroad, Raw Story, The Week and BuzzFeed
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CBS News:
FBI finds emails related to Hillary Clinton's State Department tenure — The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official.
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Talking Points Memo, True Pundit, Liberal Values, New York Times, Scared Monkeys, Betsy's Page, Taylor Marsh, Infowars, The Geller Report, New York Magazine, BizPac Review, Townhall.com, Fox News, The Week, MichelleMalkin.com, CANNONFIRE, CBS New York, Independent Journal Review, CBS Philly, Power Line, TheBlaze, Reuters, Hot Air and Business Insider
German Lopez / Vox:
Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election — The shutdowns follow a Supreme Court decision that limited federal oversight of elections. — Next week, Americans will hold the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Multiple Courts Weighing Possible Voter Intimidation
Multiple Courts Weighing Possible Voter Intimidation
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Associated Press
German Lopez / Vox:
North Carolina Republicans are using one shameful trick after another to keep Democrats from voting
North Carolina Republicans are using one shameful trick after another to keep Democrats from voting
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democratic insiders: Clinton's ground game will sink Trump
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Hint of Momentum for Clinton, With Issues a Defining Factor (POLL) — A hint of momentum for Hillary Clinton has produced a 3-point race in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll results, with wide leads for the Democrat in trust to handle the economy and health care among likely voters focused on those two issues.
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RedState
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Stretch Drive (9) — • Just three or four weeks ago all the chatter from the Certified Smart People was that Hillary was “expanding the map,” and could concentrate on campaigning in red states like Georgia, Arizona, maybe even Texas. Now, Hillary's campaign is frantically buying last minute ad time in . . . Michigan.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's — There's been a potential breach of Hillary Clinton's electoral firewall. And it's come in New Hampshire, a state that we said a couple of weeks ago could be a good indicator of a Donald Trump comeback because of its large number of swing voters.
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Reuters, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway, Instapundit, Business Insider, Guardian, The Week and Vox
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP — THE SCOOP VLADIMIR PUTIN DONALD TRUMP — In phone calls, meetings and cables, America's European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump's public statements denying Moscow's role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election.
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Mediaite, The New Civil Rights Movement, Daily Kos, Mike Cernovich Presents …, The Week and CANNONFIRE
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Impeachment Threat — Donald Trump and other embattled Republican candidates are resorting to a particularly bizarre and dangerous tactic in the closing days of the campaign — warning that they may well seek to impeach Hillary Clinton if she wins, or, short of that …
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Media Matters for America and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Broke Politics? — As far as anyone can tell, Paul Ryan …
Who Broke Politics? — As far as anyone can tell, Paul Ryan …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
America and the Abyss
Media Matters for America:
Even Bret Baier Has Now Abandoned Bret Baier's Anonymously Sourced FBI Report — On November 2, days before the presidential election, Fox host Bret Baier cited two anonymous sources to issue three explosive claims: The FBI is currently engaged in a “very high priority” investigation of …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The real Clinton email scandal is that a bulls**t story has dominated the campaign — If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server. — Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used …
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The Atlantic, True Pundit and The Daily Caller
Jim Kasuba / The News-Herald:
Allen Park man charged for allegedly holding kids at gunpoint over damaged Trump lawn sign — A 56-year-old Allen Park man has been charged with seven felonies after he allegedly pointed a gun at six children he accused of destroying his Donald Trump lawn sign.
WALV-TV:
EXCLUSIVE WTHR/HPI Poll: Young pulls ahead of Bayh in Senate race — INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Republican Todd Young inched ahead of Democrat Evan Bayh in the hotly contested Senate race by 5-points. — The WTHR/HPI Indiana Poll has Young with a 46% to 41% lead over Bayh with Libertarian Lucy Brenton with 6% and 7% still undecided.
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Hot Air
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Bayh used taxpayer cash for Indianapolis hotel stays
Bayh used taxpayer cash for Indianapolis hotel stays
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WISH-TV and America Rising
New York Times:
‘The Voter Suppression Trail’ — Note to viewers: “The Voter Suppression Trail” is the first-ever video game for Op-Docs, and also the final installment of our series of Op-Docs about the 2016 election. We hope you enjoy playing, and let us know what you think in the comments. —The Editors
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Polygon, Heat Street, The Verge and Mashable
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Jury finds reporter, Rolling Stone responsible for defaming U-Va. dean with gang rape story — CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal court jury decided Friday that a Rolling Stone journalist defamed a former University of Virginia associate dean in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assault on campus …
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Talking Points Memo and Jezebel, more at Mediagazer »
Bloomberg:
These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can't Afford Treatment — High deductibles keep patients from seeking care for ailments — 'It hurts, but we don't have that kind of money,' patient says — While Obamacare has brought health insurance to millions of people in the U.S. …
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Infowars